Leak of >1,700 valid passwords could make the IoT mess much worse

Leak of >1,700 valid passwords could make the IoT mess much worse
List of unsecured devices lived in obscurity since June. Now, it's going mainstream.

Dan Goodin - Aug 25, 2017 7:40 pm UTC

Security researchers have unearthed a sprawling list of login credentials that allows anyone on the Internet to take over home routers and more than 1,700 "Internet of things" devices and make them part of a destructive botnet.

Security researchers are warning of the availability online of a list of IoT devices and associated telnet credentials. The list has been available on Pastebin since June, but last week it was also shared via Twitter by the researcher Ankit Anubhav becoming...